Author: Water. Desalination + reuse
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Acuamed desalination plants to use renewable energy
All the desalination plants owned by Acuamed, the Spanish water supplier, as well as distribution networks and company offices, will be run on renewable energy, the company announced on 22 December 2009.
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Carlsbad legal challenge loses Surfrider Foundation.
One of the two groups staging a last-ditch challenge to the Carlsbad desalination plant, Surfrider Foundation, has abandoned its legal challenge to the California State Lands Commission’s approval of the project.
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Abstracts for EDS EuroMed 2010 needed by 15 February
A call for papers was issued on 3 January 2010 by the European Desalination Society (EDS) for its EuroMed 2010 conference and exhibition in Tel Aviv, Israel, on 3-7 October 2010.
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Work starting on 2nd Chennai SWRO plant
Work is due to begin in January 2010 on the 100,000 m³/d Nemmeli seawater desalination plant south of Chennai, India. Chennai Metrowater issued work orders in the first week of January for the project.
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Monterey desalination plant moves forward
Desalinated water could come to the Monterey coast of California “as soon as 2012”, according to the Marina Coast Water District.
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Stover quits ERI ‘to pursue other endeavours’
Dr Richard Stover, one of the key figures in the rise of Energy Recovery Inc in the last decade, has resigned from the company “to pursue other endeavours”.
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New manager for BEL Composite Iberica SL
Membrane pressure-vessel producer BEL Group Ltd announced on 6 January 2010 that Dr Victor Hernando Rico has been appointed general manager of its Spanish production facility in Murcia, Spain.
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USEPA provides US$ 10 million for water/wastewater research
Water reuse research will be in one of the key areas to be funded by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) which is giving US$ 10 million to Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) to evaluate new technologies to help utilities cope with aging and failing water and wastewater systems.
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Toray wins large RO orders in Bahrain and Spain
Toray Industries Inc announced on 24 December 2009 that it had won a series of orders to supply reverse osmosis (RO) membranes for desalination plants in Bahrain and Spain.
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GLV appoints new Christ Water chiefs
Canadian company GLV has moved to appoint new chiefs to Austria’s Christ Water Technology which it recently acquired in an uncontested takeover.